Eugene Residents Challenge Ballot Title, Prepare to Defend Climate Policy February 24, 2023

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“We are deeply disturbed that NW Natural, the state’s largest fossil fuel utility, is working to overturn a popular policy to protect public health and safety, and reduce climate pollution,” said David De La Torre, one of the petitioners and healthy climate program director with Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Eugene residents strongly support climate action, and we are ready to fight to protect this policy, and our community, from the fossil fuel industry.”

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